counting down ol' 2010

The Story of a Cheat (1936)


Sudden Fear (1952)


Now, Voyager (1942)


El Compadre Mendoza (1934)




I Wake Up Screaming (1941)


Moontide (1942)


Christopher Strong (1933)


I Wake Up Screaming


Battle of Algiers (1966)


The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954)


The Story of a Cheat


The Spring River Flows East (1947)


In The Mood For Love (2000)


Dial 1119 (1950)


Queen of Sports (1934)




Dial 1119


A Christmas Story (1983)




The Set-Up (1949)


Duck Soup (1933)


The Set-Up


The Cat and the Canary (1927)


Dangerous Crossing (1953)

Blizzard! day 30

I don't know why more films fail to feature the romance of snow.
It's there in songs about winter ("Baby, It's Cold Outside" for one)
and a bit strained but in this Rogers/Astaire film .
And now here:





Una Breve Vacanza (1971)
aka A Brief Vacation
directed by Vittorio De Sica

cinematography by Ennio Guarnieri

Blizzard! day 29

The joy of snow



Little Women (1949)
directed by Mervyn LeRoy
cinematography by Robert Planck
and Charles Schoenbaum

Blizzard! day 28

Quai des Orfevres (1947)
directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot
cinematography by Armand Thirard

Blizzard! day 27

Hangover Square (1945)
directed by John Brahm
cinematography by Joseph LaShelle

Blizzard! day 26

The Rocking Horse Winner (1949)
directed by Anthony Pelissier
cinematography by Desmond Dickinson

Merry Xmas! 2010

Larceny, Inc (1942)





Scandal (1950)



Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)



Larceny, Inc (1942)

the tree goes up on xmas eve 2010

Quai des Orfevres (1947)

The Rocking Horse Winner (1949)

Doubt (2008)

84 Charing Cross Road (1987)

Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)

When Harry Met Sally (1989)

Blizzard! day 23

The Fountainhead (1949)
directed by King Vidor
cinematography by Robert Burkes
art direction by Edward Carrere

Blizzard! day 22

Coco Avant Chanel (2009)
directed by Anne Fontaine
cinematography by Christophe Beaucarne

Blizzard! day 21

The Scarlet Empress (1934)
directed by Josef von Sternberg
cinematography by Bert Glennon